Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

I shall be but a shrimp of an author.

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

To each his suff'rings: all are men, / Condemn'd alike to groan, / The tender for another's pain; / Th' unfeeling for his own.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud.

To acquire a new perspective we must change our point of reference.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

A righteous wife can make a poor man feel like a king.

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

Your passion is your qualification. It's your leading qualification.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

All that mankind has ever learned is nothing more than a single grain of sand on a beach that reaches to infinity.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

We always speak well when we manage to be understood.